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- catalog abstract "From the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young girl stirred by two beings-a handsome young man and an ethereal white heron-is forced to make a choice between them. A love affair quashed by convention ignites during a sudden storm. These tales of remarkable and ordinary lives in nineteenth-century America are told throughout women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell. Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, as well as by others less familiar, reveal a universe of emotions hidden beneath parochial scenes. American writers claimed the short story as their national genre in the nineteenth century, and women writers made it the most important outlet for their particular experiences. A unique selection, with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, and a chronology of the authors' lives and times.".
- catalog contributor b10237475.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Cacoethes Scribendi / Catharine Sedgwick -- The angel over the right shoulder / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The two offers / Frances Harper -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Life in the iron mills ; Marcia / Rebecca Harding Davis -- My contraband ; Behind the mask, or, A woman's power / Louisa May Alcott -- A New England nun ; A poetess ; Old woman Magoun ; Sister Liddy / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Miss Grief ; At the château of Corrine / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- A white heron ; The town poor / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The yellow wallpaper ; Turned / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The story of an hour ; The storm / Kate Chopin -- Souls belated / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell.".
- catalog description "From the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young girl stirred by two beings-a handsome young man and an ethereal white heron-is forced to make a choice between them. A love affair quashed by convention ignites during a sudden storm. These tales of remarkable and ordinary lives in nineteenth-century America are told throughout women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell. Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, as well as by others less familiar, reveal a universe of emotions hidden beneath parochial scenes. American writers claimed the short story as their national genre in the nineteenth century, and women writers made it the most important outlet for their particular experiences. A unique selection, with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, and a chronology of the authors' lives and times.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [504]-513).".
- catalog extent "xlii, 515 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813523923 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0813523931 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.01089287 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors.".
- catalog subject "PS647.W6 S37 1997".
- catalog subject "Short stories, American.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Cacoethes Scribendi / Catharine Sedgwick -- The angel over the right shoulder / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The two offers / Frances Harper -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Life in the iron mills ; Marcia / Rebecca Harding Davis -- My contraband ; Behind the mask, or, A woman's power / Louisa May Alcott -- A New England nun ; A poetess ; Old woman Magoun ; Sister Liddy / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Miss Grief ; At the château of Corrine / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- A white heron ; The town poor / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The yellow wallpaper ; Turned / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The story of an hour ; The storm / Kate Chopin -- Souls belated / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell.".
- catalog title "Scribbling women : short stories by 19th century American women / selected and introduced by Elaine Showalter ; consultant editor for this volume, Christophier Bigsby.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".